As opposed to Serbo-Croatian? I’ve never heard anything but choppers in the US.

]]>By: Rob O'Danielhttp://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/saber-toothed-squirrel-from-the-dinosaur-days.html#comment-1262247
Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:45:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/saber-toothed-squirrel-from-the-dinosaur-days.html#comment-1262247Must be a predecessor to the honey badger!
]]>By: mrclamohttp://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/saber-toothed-squirrel-from-the-dinosaur-days.html#comment-1262139
Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:00:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/saber-toothed-squirrel-from-the-dinosaur-days.html#comment-1262139It doesn’t stop there. I give you the Saber Tooth Deer:http://www.awesomeoff.com/entries/saber-toothed-deer-1009.html
]]>By: skeptacallyhttp://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/saber-toothed-squirrel-from-the-dinosaur-days.html#comment-1262068
Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:46:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/saber-toothed-squirrel-from-the-dinosaur-days.html#comment-1262068That’s the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on! That squirrel’s got a vicious streak a mile wide! It’s a killer!
]]>By: Guesthttp://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/saber-toothed-squirrel-from-the-dinosaur-days.html#comment-1262058
Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:33:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/saber-toothed-squirrel-from-the-dinosaur-days.html#comment-1262058Yes, but was ‘Cronopio dentiacutus’ surrounded by the fossilized remains of a large cache of acorns, and what appears to be a field of faultlines running for miles in every direction, with Scrat as the epicenter? Kinda sad to think he finally ran out of luck.
]]>By: Chuckhttp://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/saber-toothed-squirrel-from-the-dinosaur-days.html#comment-1262032
Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:50:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/saber-toothed-squirrel-from-the-dinosaur-days.html#comment-1262032Will they scurry up to you and take bits of beef jerky from your hand? (May have to “borrow” Percival Dunwoody’s time machine to test this out.)
]]>By: MTBookshttp://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/saber-toothed-squirrel-from-the-dinosaur-days.html#comment-1261988
Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:05:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/saber-toothed-squirrel-from-the-dinosaur-days.html#comment-1261988Is choppers the English term? I only ever hear chompers.
]]>By: awjthttp://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/saber-toothed-squirrel-from-the-dinosaur-days.html#comment-1261915
Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:51:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/saber-toothed-squirrel-from-the-dinosaur-days.html#comment-1261915Yeah, it’s scrat!
]]>By: eryximachushttp://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/saber-toothed-squirrel-from-the-dinosaur-days.html#comment-1261836
Thu, 03 Nov 2011 05:32:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/saber-toothed-squirrel-from-the-dinosaur-days.html#comment-1261836 They strike me as an ancient version of the Grasshopper Mouse… though they are utterly unrelated.

Grasshopper Mice are predatory field mice whose diet is almost entirely meat and insects. They even howl like tiny wolves to mark their territory :)

]]>By: Arthttp://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/saber-toothed-squirrel-from-the-dinosaur-days.html#comment-1261832
Thu, 03 Nov 2011 05:22:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/saber-toothed-squirrel-from-the-dinosaur-days.html#comment-1261832We have these same animals on our property!
But they’re cuter with puffy little cheeks and don’t have the large fangs.
]]>By: douglipshttp://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/saber-toothed-squirrel-from-the-dinosaur-days.html#comment-1261828
Thu, 03 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/saber-toothed-squirrel-from-the-dinosaur-days.html#comment-1261828Looks rather like Scrat:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1tdfucQfCo
]]>By: dagfooyohttp://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/saber-toothed-squirrel-from-the-dinosaur-days.html#comment-1261822
Thu, 03 Nov 2011 04:43:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/saber-toothed-squirrel-from-the-dinosaur-days.html#comment-1261822Damn! A couple days earlier and this could’ve been my Halloween costume…
]]>By: KBerthttp://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/saber-toothed-squirrel-from-the-dinosaur-days.html#comment-1261821
Thu, 03 Nov 2011 04:41:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/saber-toothed-squirrel-from-the-dinosaur-days.html#comment-1261821Eh, just another rodent… from Hell!
]]>By: GawainLavershttp://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/saber-toothed-squirrel-from-the-dinosaur-days.html#comment-1261808
Thu, 03 Nov 2011 04:17:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/saber-toothed-squirrel-from-the-dinosaur-days.html#comment-1261808Weren’t the only one:
“I remember when I saw the movie I thought, ‘why have they done this ridiculous animal – there is no such thing?’. And then we find something that kind of looks like it.”

]]>By: gwailo_joehttp://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/saber-toothed-squirrel-from-the-dinosaur-days.html#comment-1261798
Thu, 03 Nov 2011 03:56:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/saber-toothed-squirrel-from-the-dinosaur-days.html#comment-1261798Looks more like a ferret-warthog had relations with a raccoon-rat…and this wonderful creature resulted.